Beggars can't be choosers!

Even though some of you may not find this to be spiritual, in fact everything we do has a spiritual aspect to it. In my book, Rare Sense, I talk about giving and receiving and how hard a lot of us have with receiving anything. Then I was told a story about a couple and a foodbank and it got me wondering about the old adage reflected in the title of this blog. Beggars can't be choosers.

The story (and it's true) goes like this. For the first time in their lives a couple was facing the reality that they had to look for assistance to help feed their family due to financial challenges, so they turned to a local food bank for help. Upon arriving @ the foodbank, to their obvious dismay, they were given generic brand food. They actually refused to accept the food because it was generic. Perhaps this is the mind set that has gotten them in the financial mess that they are in today. If the thought process is I can only accept help if it is brand name help, then they have much deeper problems than just a financial. They are spiritually out of balance.

You see, if you have a material mindset and those material things are the most important thing to you, then you may actually, like this couple did, refuse help to feed your family because what was offered was not good enough. If you have that type of mindset then I suggest you reevaluate your life and start actually looking for the good "non" material things in your life, like love, compassion and acceptance. Understand that those things are more important and look for the good in the everyday things and you will see that other things like financial concerns will eventually go away. However, if you have the mindset that "generic" food is not good enough then you will continue to chase the material things and just continue having financial concerns.

It also goes back to not being able to receive. That couple was looking for assistance and it was provided to them and they refused it because it was not good enough. That is not only insane, it is irresponsible. I am sure given their mindset that it was hard enough to go to the foodbank in the first place but then to compound the problem by not accepting the help makes no sense. This is why I call it rare sense because common sense would have had them accept the help no matter whether it was generic or not!